How we Will Dress in the Future, According to Hollywood

How we Will Dress in the Future, According to Hollywood

How we Will Dress in the Future, According to Hollywood

This week sees the release of Divergent, yet another in an apparently endless line of dystopian science-fiction stories based on a wildly popular series of Young Adult novels. As you might expect, Divergent is set in an Orwellian future world where homogeneity reigns supreme — a point driven home, as usual, by a costume design scheme that favors the austere and dreary. In the future, if movies like these are anything to go by, we’ll all be wearing monochrome onesies. That’s pretty fcking bleak.

Well, fortunately for us, some movies set in the future (of both the near and distant varieties) have realized a more adventurous vision of our culture’s sartorial horizon. And so, as an antidote to Divergent’s omnipresent grays, we’ve put together a list of future fashions we’re eager to see made real.

A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange

Alex DeLarge and his companionable droogs rocked an ensemble of legendary audacity: jet-black combat boots, crisp white button-down and pants, an oversized cup worn on the outside (hoisted up by suspenders, naturally), garish false eyelashes, and, to top it all off, a black felt bowler hat. Nothing instills menace in the populace quite like this combination, and we hope to one day have the nerve to stroll down the streets in kind.